TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tuttle,W.C.
TI  - Derelicts of the hills
T2  - Produced from the June, 1916 issue of Adventure magazine
AV  - PS 
PY  - 2025///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Short stories
KW  - Western stories
KW  - Male friendship -- Fiction
KW  - Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
KW  - Storytelling -- Fiction
KW  - Simpkins, Magpie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
KW  - Harper, Ike (Fictitious character) -- Fiction
KW  - Piperock (Montana : Imaginary place) -- Fiction
N1  - Release date is 2025-05-27; Roger Frank and Sue Clark; Originally published; New York: The Ridgway Company, 1916
N2  - "Derelicts of the hills by W. C. Tuttle" is a humorous Western short story written in the early 20th century. It follows two prospectors in a rough frontier settlement, mixing camp-life comedy with a tangle of romance and deception around a notorious mining man.  An Eastern visitor, Frederick Norwood, rides into the hills seeking Tellurium Woods and meets Ike Harper, who explains why Woods won’t be found and recounts the misadventures of his partner, Magpie Simpkins. Magpie, a kind but impractical dreamer dabbling in fads from psychology to spiritualism, falls hard for a Piperock waitress named Minnie, buys her a flashy ring, and plans a swift wedding. On the trail back to town, Ike and Magpie meet a bowlegged stranger, Gus Summers, hunting Woods with a shotgun for running off with his wife—Minnie. The truth hits Magpie, who quietly calls off his plans and heads back to the hills, chastened but steady, while Ike closes the tale with wry good humor as Magpie returns to his beans and their partnership endures. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76171
ER  -